Two Teachers Suspended

March 7, 1987|Staff reports

Two teachers facing charges involving the sexual assault of a 3-year-old girl have been suspended by the Broward County School Board.

The board on Thursday suspended without pay Harold James Fox, 41, and Nancy G. Desky, 35. Both have until March 18 to request a hearing on the charges. If they do not, the board will decide on April 2 whether to accept Superintendent William Leary`s recommendation to fire them.

Fox and Desky taught at the Seagull School for the handicapped and lived together in Davie.

Fox, who taught for 10 years at Seagull, was arrested on Jan. 25 and charged with forcing a child to perform a sexual act. He is being held without bail in the Broward County Jail.

Desky, a teacher in Broward since 1980, was charged on Feb. 14 with indecent assault on a child under 12 and with contributing to the delinquency of a minor. She was released from jail on bond.

Charges against both Fox and Desky involved the same child, who was not a student at the school.